Vikram Kumar must have had a tremendous amount of pressure on his 2-film-old shoulders. The fact that the 3 generations of the Akkineni family were acting in his movie was enough to send expectations through the roof. And when ANR passed away during the making of the film, and the film thus earned the additional qualification of being ANR's last movie, the pressure must've increased thousand-fold. That the man delivers a fairly decent product under such pressure bodes well for him.
Manam is a completely illogical tale, easy to dismiss as impossible to happen in real life. But i....